Law Enforcement

Ex-LAPD officer suspected in slaying is arrested in Mexico, officials say
A month manhunt for an ex-LAPD officer accused of murder ended Tuesday when the 27-year-old was arrested in Mexico, authorities said. Chihuahua state authorities said Henry Solis resisted arrest, but no shots were fired when he was apprehended in Juarez, across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas. Solis told authorities he knew his capture was coming “sooner or later,” Mexican officials said at a news conference.
Los Angeles Times

LAPD's elite Metro squad swarms high crime neighborhoods armed with 'reasonable suspicion'
At around midnight on a recent weeknight, LAPD officers lined up eight young African-American men along a metal fence on East 65th Street in South Los Angeles and checked their IDs. The area is known for gang activity, and the officers, part of the department's elite Metropolitan Division, swarmed the neighborhood after an uptick in gang activity.
KPCC

How a gang member's ‘butt dial' helped solve a Valley murder case
In the anatomy of solving a Los Angeles homicide, nothing helped break the case for West Valley Division police detectives better than the “butt call” from a fleeing gang member. It was a cool, cloudy afternoon looking like rain in April 2013 when two brothers from a Los Angeles-area gang swaggered onto Cleveland Charter High School and challenged 18-year-old Kevin Orellana as he played handball.
Los Angeles Daily News

LAPD body-camera policy should promote accuracy: Letters
Re “LAPD body camera policy is flawed” (Editorial, April 30): The editorial was critical of the Los Angeles Police Commission's decision to allow Los Angeles Police Department officers to view video from their body cameras prior to being interviewed on uses of force. The reason given for this criticism was that this would undermine the public's trust of the investigative process because it would somehow allow the officers to “get their story straight” before being questioned. This is absurd logic.
Los Angeles Daily News

Help Sought Finding Man, 67, With Schizophrenia Who Disappeared in Manhattan Beach
Police asked the public for help Tuesday in their search for a 67-year-old man with schizophrenia who disappeared last week in Manhattan Beach. Bertram Robert Northrop was reported missing after he was last seen at the Katsu-Ya Restaurant at about 1:05 p.m. on May 20, the Manhattan Beach Police Department stated in a news release.
KTLA 5

Union leaders offer few comments on Cleveland police consent decree with Justice Department
Leaders of Cleveland's police unions and an organization representing black officers were cautiously optimistic Tuesday following the announcement of an agreement that mandates top-to-bottom reforms for the city's police department.
Cleveland.com

Police Detail Traffic Stop That Ended in Officer's Death
A police officer in a suburb of Albuquerque decided to make one more traffic stop before his shift finished Monday night. It ended up costing him his life. Rio Rancho Police Chief Michael Geier detailed the last moments of Officer Gregg Benner's shift during a news conference Tuesday in which police identified a known gang member with an extensive criminal record that included a manslaughter conviction and weapons charges as the man suspected of fatally shooting the officer.
ABC News

Baltimore's deadliest month in 15 years: May counts 35 homicides, so far
Baltimore is seeing its deadliest month in 15 years after an outbreak of Memorial Day weekend violence left nine people dead in 29 shootings. So far, Baltimore has tallied 35 homicides this month, police said. The last time Baltimore saw that many homicides was December 1999, police said.
CNN

City Government

Residents Speak Out Against Plan For Cellphone Towers
A group of Southland residents voiced their concerns to lawmakers Monday about dozens of proposed cellphones towers set to be built in their neighborhoods. They presented online petitions with more than 350,000 signatures asking that officials cut back on the plan.
CBS Los Angeles